Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

Polyethylene, or PE, is one of the most commonly produced plastics in the world. It is used primarily for making grocery bags, trash bags and packaging films and wraps as well as food containers, ...

Researchers have developed a sunlight-driven process that breaks down common plastic waste and reassembles its carbon into ...

Photocatalysis 'allows abundant and free solar energy to break down plastic pollution'. | Credit: Illustration by Marian Femenias-Moratinos / What if plastic waste could be turned into something ...

Scientists have found a way to turn plastic into acetic acid using a source that's present in abundance.

Dr. Byungwook Hwang’s research team from the CCS Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a process that applies the circulating fluidized bed ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...

A$11.2m in joint federal and NSW funding will expand facilities to process hard-to-recycle plastics, including soft plastics ...